ProfessorMadhusanka Liyanage

Recognised by Research.com as an Electronics and Electrical Engineering Leader 2026 in Ireland; currently ranked #10 nationally

Recognised as a Scilit Top Cited Scholar 2026 for sustained scholarly impact and highly cited research publications

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Invited guest lecture on the role of blockchain in future 6G communication networks, organised jointly by the IEEE Communications Society Sri Lanka Chapter and NSBM Research Council. The lecture discussed how blockchain can support secure and intelligent 6G systems and highlighted emerging research trends, technical opportunities and future research directions in blockchain-enabled next-generation networks.

Recognised by Research.com as a Rising Star of Science 2025. Ranked #378 worldwide and #2 in Ireland in the Research.com Best Rising Stars of Science 2025/2026 ranking.

Invited 60-minute professional webinar delivered as part of the two-part workshop “Autonomous Intelligence Unlocked: Agentic AI & 6G Networks”, organised by the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL) NSW Chapter. The session explored how AI will power future 6G networks, the security and trust challenges created by autonomous AI-driven networks, and approaches for building trustworthy next-generation communication systems. The activity translated current research in AI-native 6G and cybersecurity for an international professional engineering audience.

Expert contributor to an interdisciplinary Responsible AI UK workshop bringing together specialists from law, computer science, industry and policy to examine responsible deployment of AI in legal and judicial environments. Discussions addressed transparency, fairness and privacy in AI-assisted decision-making, verification of AI decisions, secure computation and zero-knowledge verification as mechanisms for accountability and assurance.

Named a Highly Cited Researcher 2025 by Clarivate in the field of Computer Science, recognising significant and broad research influence based on Web of Science citation data and quantitative and qualitative analysis.

Recognised by Research.com as a leading Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientist in Ireland in its 2025 edition, ranked #9 nationally at the time of publication.

Recognised by ScholarGPS as a Highly Ranked Scholar based on scholarly performance over the prior five years in Computer Science.

Recognised by ScholarGPS as a Highly Ranked Scholar based on scholarly performance over the prior five years in Engineering and Computer Science.

Recognised by ScholarGPS as a Highly Ranked Scholar based on scholarly performance over the prior five years in the Overall (All Fields) category.

Included in the Stanford/Elsevier science-wide database of top-cited scientists based on career-long citation impact.

Included in the Stanford/Elsevier science-wide database of top-cited scientists based on citation impact during calendar year 2024.

Best Paper Award for the paper “Securing xApps in Open RAN: A Hierarchical Approach to Authentication and Authorisation”, presented at the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2025), Avignon, France.

Invited international seminar presenting research on security and privacy for emerging 6G smart networks and services. The seminar explained the ROBUST-6G approach, including distributed trusted AI/ML, zero-touch end-to-end security, energy-efficient security and privacy, real-time resilience for timing-sensitive 6G software, and quantum-safe communications.

Ambassadors to raise awareness about COcyber, share valuable insights, and help build connections between civilian and defense cybersecurity stakeholders across Europe.

Founder and Head of Research of MBP Systems, a UCD-origin deep-tech SME translating advanced academic research into commercial technologies and industry solutions. I provide technical and strategic leadership in cybersecurity, 5G/6G networks, AI/ML, privacy engineering, Open RAN, cloud-edge systems and blockchain, and lead the development of research-driven products, consultancy activities and European R&I collaborations. MBP works with academic, industry and public-sector partners to develop secure, privacy-by-design solutions for next-generation digital infrastructures. The role supports research commercialisation, industry knowledge transfer, innovation development and translation of research outputs into deployable technologies.

Invited webinar in the 6G Security and Privacy Seminar Series presenting the ROBUST-6G project's approach to security and privacy for future 6G networks. The session disseminated current research on trustworthy AI, automated security, resilient network architectures and emerging 6G cybersecurity challenges to an international audience.

Ranked as Best (Top 1000) Rising Stars of Science in 2024 by Research.com. The 3rd edition of Research.com ranking of top rising stars of science is based on metrics collected from a wide range of bibliometric sources including OpenAlex and CrossRef on 21-11-2023. Position in the ranking is based on a scholar’s total H-index. Only scientists whose earliest publication is from 12 or less years ago were considered.

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Highly Ranked Scholars™ are the most productive (number of publications) authors whose works are of profound impact (citations) and of utmost quality (h-index). Enabled by the generation of over 30 million detailed scholar profiles based on unique ScholarGPS™ classification of over 200 million scholarly publications of record into one of over 350,000 distinct Specialties, 177 Disciplines, and 14 Fields, Highly Ranked Scholars™ are, for the first time, identified within each Specialty, Discipline, Field, and all Fields. Highly Ranked Scholars™ are those with ScholarGPS™ Ranks of 0.05% or better. The data used to identify the ScholarGPS™ Highly Ranked Scholars™ are based on lifetime or prior five-year activity, weighting each publication and citation by the number of authors, and excluding self-citations. All scholars…including inactive, deceased, and retired scholars…are included.

Highly Ranked Scholars™ are the most productive (number of publications) authors whose works are of profound impact (citations) and of utmost quality (h-index). Enabled by the generation of over 30 million detailed scholar profiles based on unique ScholarGPS™ classification of over 200 million scholarly publications of record into one of over 350,000 distinct Specialties, 177 Disciplines, and 14 Fields, Highly Ranked Scholars™ are, for the first time, identified within each Specialty, Discipline, Field, and all Fields. Highly Ranked Scholars™ are those with ScholarGPS™ Ranks of 0.05% or better. The data used to identify the ScholarGPS™ Highly Ranked Scholars™ are based on lifetime or prior five-year activity, weighting each publication and citation by the number of authors, and excluding self-citations. All scholars…including inactive, deceased, and retired scholars…are included

Highly Ranked Scholars™ are the most productive (number of publications) authors whose works are of profound impact (citations) and of utmost quality (h-index). Enabled by the generation of over 30 million detailed scholar profiles based on unique ScholarGPS™ classification of over 200 million scholarly publications of record into one of over 350,000 distinct Specialties, 177 Disciplines, and 14 Fields, Highly Ranked Scholars™ are, for the first time, identified within each Specialty, Discipline, Field, and all Fields. Highly Ranked Scholars™ are those with ScholarGPS™ Ranks of 0.05% or better. The data used to identify the ScholarGPS™ Highly Ranked Scholars™ are based on lifetime or prior five-year activity, weighting each publication and citation by the number of authors, and excluding self-citations. All scholars…including inactive, deceased, and retired scholars…are included.